Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met with departing French Consul General Yann Braem on Tuesday and recognized his contributions to bolstering bilateral relations. The…
With 7.8% of the world's population undernourished, the few positive trends are not enough to bring down persistently high levels of hunger and food insecurity, especially in Afri…
The Full Monty, the "outstanding" British classic from the 1990s, is now streaming for free in the UK. Released in 1997 and set in Sheffield, the film follows six men as they form…
Turkish police detained 15 suspects across five provinces on July 21, including a former governor’s wife, widening a murder probe into university student Gülistan Doku who vanishe…
The Netherlands will ban the import of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements from September 22, foreign minister Tom Berendsen has told MPs. The cabinet announced the trad…
Stephen Wolfram — physicist and creator of Wolfram Alpha — has spent decades trying to understand why the universe produces so much complexity from such simple beginnings. His ans…
Some commentators on international affairs seem to think that “the West” and the BRICS+ do not really matter; only the United States and China do. Yet three factors complicate thi…
Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was swift and predictable. Markets …
Mediators are attempting to persuade the US and Iran to halt hostilities, proposing a 10-day truce and a return to negotiations to reach an agreement on the running of the Strait …
India’s Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s chargé d’affaires Vladimir Ladanov and expressed “serious concern” over the deaths of Indian citizens in a Russian strike on a cargo shi…
Low-agency people tend to believe in what I call the “myth of willpower,” the idea that virtue lies in exerting extreme effort to overcome obstacles. This is different from puttin…
During a pivotal moment in The Odyssey, Circe sends Odysseus to the Kingdom of the Dead to find the soothsayer who can instruct him on how to return home after more than a dozen y…